A decade ago, I started my "blogging" career as a Nokia and Symbian enthusiast. For the better part of 5 years, most of my online life and work revolved around the brand, its new phones, announcements, events, apps, games, themes, and more. It's both ironic and nostalgic to say, but Nokia is part of the reason I'm here on Android Police now. So you can imagine I have a lot of love and unconscious attachment for the brand. I have kept an eye on its recent resurrection at MWC with the Nokia 3, 5, 6, and revamped 3310, and this news today makes me even more excited about it.

In a reply to a user enquiring about the new Android phones coming to the US, Nokia officially said a global release is planned and yes, that does mean the US too. Now whether that means the phones will be made available for purchase online globally or will be sold unlocked at retailers in the US or will come through carriers, we have no idea. But the word is clear: somehow, these phones will be released in the US. Nice.

For everyone else, I have a question. Would you buy a Nokia phone if they were released stateside? I know the Nokia 6 is pretty midrange and we still don't have a real flagship Nokia phone, but there are rumors of one. I'd be very tempted to, honestly.

I'd buy one if the price stays near what it is. It looks pretty stock android. Maybe they can continue down the path that Motorola could have gone down. Clean design, no skinning, quick software updates. It could be really good if they do it right...assuming Android One in the US doesn't beat them to the punch.

Latheryin

Android one really isn't much of anything in the states. Most people in the states only buy flagship level devices from their carriers. Less then 2% of people buy their devices outside of the carrier or even pay full retail for their devices.

Craig

Yeah, Android One in the US is rumored. I'll believe it when I see it. But with 2 year contracts basically gone in the US, everyone pays retail price for their phones, with either a monthly payment or all at once upfront and when/if people start realizing their $200 phone is really a $700 phone things may change. But who knows maybe not.

Howard Stern ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

Confirmed, they are making their move into the US. LG is going to manufacture the devices.

but yeah, i'll believe it all when I see it. that was reported like 2 months ago.

Latheryin

Socks for many as the carriers here are still doing contracts and I can walk into any one of them and get the latest flagship for free with a new contract.

Android one will be an epic fall in the states. Just like it was in India. The only place it might get a foot hold is in 3rd world countries.

Perico Lospalotes

Maybe, but it has to be better than a premium with a mid-range price, and yes without redundant software like Samsung, LG, HTC et all

Pessimippopotamus

It looks like it'll be semi-premium in everything but the processor and screen res to cut the cost: SD430.

Howard Stern ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

they are priced decent....but their best model here has the 430. i'm sure people will buy it, but i am staying away until I see some premium devices. I wish they had a phone for everyone, ya know? they are just missing that premium model IMO.

Whenever I'm up for buying a new phone and they release a high end version, Nokia will be my first choice. Outside of Pixel/Nexus, there aren't really any 'pure Android' phones to choose from, especially at a reasonable price. Moto has fallen off, IMO.

Craig

Agreed, I don't have a whole lot of confidence in Moto anymore, which is sad cus I loved my Moto X 2013.

Actually, Google killed it for you. Google stripped (for the pedantic, read: bought) Motorola Mobility of almost ALL its patents (or at least the good ones that really mattered). And then left Moto for dead. THAT is what killed Moto. Lenovo was just the vehicle in which Moto died.

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Rúben Santos

Google made an agreement with Lenovo that means Lenovo can still use previously moto-owned patentes on their phones. So that's incorrect, sir.

Chris

But then why did Moto release their best phones, the Moto X line, under Google? Moto was garbage before the Moto X line (at least in my eyes)

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MJ

I would be interested in the Nokia 3310 for the nostalgia factor. The Android ones? Meh...

Howard Stern ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

I almost want to buy that 3310 just for that reason too, nostalgia.

Zorak✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᵉᵛᶦˡ

Doesn't even hold a candle to the original. I mean if you take the original and hit MJ with it on his head, his head opens and a little alien comes out and starts dancing to the Men in Black theme ft. Will Smith. This one looks like it'll come apart if you fart in its general direction.

Jay

Maybe this means we'll be blessed with a Nokia flagship stateside. I love that prospect!

hp-fourtwenty

I miss charging my old nokia twice a week and never worrying if it would die on me

Andrew Mackoul

The only carrier the 3310 will work on is T-Mobile in the US because AT&T shutdown their GSM network

Phone_Addiction

i though t-mobile was going start doing the same thing also

IAMTHEL33KER

Kinda wish they put a snapdragon 625 in the Nokia 6 tbh

YaKillaCJ

Or 652/653. Performance would shoot through the roof.

Stu

Is their flagship delayed because of the 835? Also, how's the software on these phones?

lordmerovingian

Is it fair to say that we on the CDMA front shouldn't hold our breath?

YaKillaCJ

Part of the price you pay for signing a contract with big red...

Leonardo Baez

Remember guys... This nokias are not real "Nokias". Its a chinese company who licenced the brand. Not the european real thing.

kashtrey

It's a little more complicated than that. The Nokia brand is licensed to another Finnish company made up of mostly former Nokia employees. This company, HMD, then outsources the actual manufacturing to Foxconn.

parrotgeek1

Why can't HMD just change their name to Nokia?

DEEPESH PANCHOLI

By that logic, VW should call themselves Lamborghini! Even better, let's rename Tata to JLR.

kashtrey

It's annoyingly complicated but Nokia (the company) still exists and now focuses on things like large scale phone infrastructure. Nokia (the brand) was bought by a partnership between HMD and this other company (a subsidiary of Foxconn, so I stand corrected and this new Nokia phones are partly owned by the Chinese).

Rod

Foxconn assembles the iPhones. So, it's not a bad thing.

Sean

Nokia...Congrats on those original names.......wow! Fantastic........

Oxy

I work at a phone/PC service center and recently i had a chance to play with new Nokia 6, and honestly its a pretty damn average phone. Its neither bad nor is it great just your every day android phone like most of them.

I fear that most people when they get their hands on these will feel like i do and the "nokia reborn" hype will go away.

With that said there is nothing wrong with the phone outside of that fact.

needa

If they built a phone that peaked my interests, I would buy it. The question is whether or not they can do that. I have yet to see them come out with anything remotely close.

I'm undecided. If it sports a USB type-C connector then it'd be a no-brainer.

JG

Unless Google surprises us by releasing something similar, I'll probably pick up a 3310 to use as a disposable/backup device that I could take with to certain activities...

I'd rather a $50 phone get too water logged or sand covered and need replacing than a $750 Pixel XL.

Only downside will be having to use T9 again. Well that and having the entire internet at my finger tips, able to look up recommendations for dinner from the beach, pulling up turn by turn directions to it, etc.

Ray

Bring on Snake!

pat cola

My first cell phone was a Nokia 3210? in 2000. Had Nokia phones all the way up to the end.
I will buy one Lord willing when they come stateside. Right now though I am really liking my BLU Life one x2 mini. The best built phone this company has released that I have used so far. Very solid and well made.

Douglas Adams

If there is a flagship (like the Nokia 8 / P1 rumours) then definitely. Having used all the Nexii, I can't see myself buying any other phone except a Nokia running pure Android.

Yuji Sakai

I definitely would buy a Nokia .. But i will hold on till they release their Flagship ..

I am curious (and also hoping for the good) about Nokia's considerations on being (at least to some extent,) developer friendly...

Noah Smith

I'd buy a Nokia 6 right now. Here's why. My laundry list is pretty simple. I want an inexpensive smartphone with stock or near stock android, 1080p or better screen, Android Pay (NFC + fingerprint reader), decent build and speed. It doesn't need to be blazing fast, just fast enough not to lag around the interface and in Chrome or general apps. The current options are: Moto G4/5 Plus (lack NFC), Nexus 5x (still over $300 despite being discontinued), OnePlus 3T (not quite inexpensive enough at $440) or the Nextbit Robin. The Nextbit Robin checks all the boxes and only costs $150, but will probably not receive much support past android 7.0 due to the Razer acquisition. The Nokia checks all the boxes, is backed by updates, and has a full metal build as the icing on the cake for $250.

serafine

I want the Nokia 3310 so very badly. Hope they will make a 4G bare bones version and it can play happily with AT&T's network.

Meme

I want to purchase a Nokia 8, but I cannot find anywhere I can preorder one in the US. Why is Nokia always locked out of the US market? They're always hard to find. Very frustrating. And I can't order one because the companies in other countries won't ship to the US.